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Subject: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Men_At_Work_Fan on 04/23/03 at 02:57 p.m.

...the make you wonder how in the H:-X :-XL they coulda happened...





...Like how Ric Ocasek married Paulina Porizkova (What was up with THAT?!!?!!?!!?!!?!!)

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Anti_Pop_Superstar on 04/23/03 at 03:14 p.m.

How Dan Ackroyd was part of USA For Africa.
He's an actor, not a singer.

And how Jethro Tull won the first best metal act instead of Metallica at the 1989 Grammys.

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Men_At_Work_Fan on 04/23/03 at 04:59 p.m.

Or how people knew stuff without the internet.

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: AstringOfPoloponies on 04/23/03 at 06:15 p.m.


Quoting:
Or how people knew stuff without the internet.
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Yeah ! I keep asking how did I make it through college without the internet !!! ;D

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: AstringOfPoloponies on 04/23/03 at 06:18 p.m.

The Jim Jones Mass Suicide

Toxic Shock Syndrome

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: jamminoldies on 04/23/03 at 06:53 p.m.

Like Why AIDS started in the 80's? Why couldn't it start in the 90's or something?

Howard  ;D

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: CatwomanofV on 04/23/03 at 07:00 p.m.


Quoting:
The Jim Jones Mass Suicide

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That happened in 1978.



Cat

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Krapton on 04/24/03 at 00:10 a.m.

... or how an actor became The President.  

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Jonman on 04/24/03 at 02:57 a.m.


Quoting:
How Dan Ackroyd was part of USA For Africa.
He's an actor, not a singer.End Quote



He's one of the Blues Brothers...that makes him a singer as well...

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Anti_Pop_Superstar on 04/24/03 at 03:36 a.m.

How the,then little known, Beastie Boys got booed when they opened up for Madonna.

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: princessofpop on 04/24/03 at 06:08 a.m.

Remember the Cyanide (sp?) laced Tylenol scare?  What year was that?  I remember my mother & my grandparents throwing away everything in their medicine cabinets & the empty shelves at the grocery store.  It changed the way medicine was packaged forever & it's rare that you find an over the counter drug in capsule form now.  

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Absolutely_Vile on 04/24/03 at 09:06 a.m.

I think that was around 1982 or so. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) And you won't find any over-the-counter capsule drugs anymore...at least not that I've seen. The closest you'll find are "caplets," which can't be pulled apart like capsules can.

Absolutely Vile

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: DJ Midas on 04/24/03 at 02:16 p.m.

Neon clothes that made people go blind
Corduroy shorts
Wearing only one sequined glove
New Kids On The Block

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Anti_Pop_Superstar on 04/24/03 at 02:36 p.m.

Day Glo clothes
"Superball Shuffle" from The '85 Chicago Bears being a hit
Rick Astley
"Full House" didn't last 1 season
Lenny Kravitz's 1989 debut wasn't well recieved




Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Anti_Pop_Superstar on 04/24/03 at 02:38 p.m.

Quoting:
New Kids On The Block
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Along with their mass popularity in 1989.

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: jamminoldies on 04/24/03 at 06:36 p.m.

Michael Jackson  ;D

Howard  ;D

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Marian on 04/25/03 at 10:24 a.m.


Quoting:
The Jim Jones Mass Suicide

Toxic Shock Syndrome


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??? ???Are those things from 1979 or 1980?I forgot.Anyway,I was in the Loma Prieta earthquake of october 17,1989.That was pretty weird.Cheers! :o :o :o :o

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: jamminoldies on 04/26/03 at 04:15 p.m.

Hurricane Gloria:
September 22nd,1985.

Howard

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: dagwood on 04/26/03 at 06:31 p.m.


Quoting:
New Kids On The Block
End Quote



Now that is just plain scary. :o

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: jamminoldies on 04/27/03 at 03:45 p.m.

Madonna. ;D

howard

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Goreripper on 04/28/03 at 00:09 a.m.


Quoting:
Like Why AIDS started in the 80's? Why couldn't it start in the 90's or something?

Howard  ;D
End Quote



;D

Actually AIDS started well before the 1980s. Some researchers have suggested it existed in Africa in the 1930s.

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Davester on 04/28/03 at 09:01 a.m.

  I was married and a father at 17...weird... ::)

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: CatwomanofV on 04/28/03 at 09:44 a.m.

I got married in the 80s too. It didn't take so my marriage was over before the decade was.




Cat

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: cflove on 04/28/03 at 09:54 a.m.

John Lennon was murdered. . . :'(

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Davester on 04/28/03 at 09:59 a.m.


Quoting:
I got married in the 80s too. It didn't take so my marriage was over before the decade was.




Cat
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  Mine was over before the year was...and I still have the sideways figure-8 imprint of a shotgun muzzle on the back-'o-me-neck, qwikey!

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Anti_Pop_Superstar on 04/28/03 at 03:54 p.m.

Cabbage Patch Kids dolls

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Men_At_Work_Fan on 04/29/03 at 02:58 p.m.

How obnoxious and bright cloths were, and how the Limited actually sold PINK OUTFITS!!!!!!!!!



Did I mention the incident when Ric Ocasek and Paulina Porizkova got married????

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Bobby on 06/11/03 at 06:48 a.m.

Sigue Sigue Sputnik and, this isn't wierd but amazing at the time, the Berlin Wall falling down in 1989.

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: bj26 on 06/11/03 at 08:22 a.m.

Mt St. Helens blew
multiple Big Foot sitings

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: _Loren_ on 06/11/03 at 08:47 a.m.

Ronald Reagan getting shot by a deranged fan of Jody Foster? Tatum O'neal?  one of those two.


My mom telling me the day before the space shuttle Columbia blew up that the space shuttle was going to blow up.

Me getting married to a complete psycho who I knew was a complete psycho.

I graduated highschool with passing grades while being completely blotto from 11th grade on.

Peace,

Loren

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: _Loren_ on 06/11/03 at 08:50 a.m.

hehehehe I just scrolled and saw Sigue Sigue Sputnik a band that actually sold advertising to companies between tracks on one of their albums!!!!!


Peace,

Loren

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Digitales on 06/11/03 at 12:19 a.m.

SSS had some cool gravity defying haircuts ROFL!

now about the bright neon clothes... i don't think i will ever dare to show any of my pics to anyone in this board... i'm afraid to make everyone blind, so you guys will need braillerkeyboards <grin>

Quoting:
hehehehe I just scrolled and saw Sigue Sigue Sputnik a band that actually sold advertising to companies between tracks on one of their albums!!!!!


Peace,

Loren
End Quote

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: dagwood on 06/11/03 at 05:26 p.m.


Quoting:
"Full House" didn't last 1 season
End Quote



Full House lasted more than a season.

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: PhiKapDave on 06/11/03 at 06:29 p.m.

I actually thought a jheri curl looked good on me! ;D

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: gypsumbored on 06/12/03 at 01:37 a.m.

two words:

New Coke.

bleghhhhhhhhh :-X

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Bobby on 06/12/03 at 05:39 a.m.

Quoting:
SSS had some cool gravity defying haircuts ROFL!

now about the bright neon clothes... i don't think i will ever dare to show any of my pics to anyone in this board... i'm afraid to make everyone blind, so you guys will need braillerkeyboards <grin>End Quote



Now you've said that, Digitales you're going to have to send the pics in!  ;D

It would be great! I remember the blinding Bermuda shorts and the Fido Dido T-shirts back in the late 80s (in Britain).

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Secret_Squirrell on 06/16/03 at 01:03 a.m.

Two words: Milli Vanilli.   :P

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: mr_crowly on 06/16/03 at 07:53 a.m.

janet st porter   she is fucking scary man  one look at her and i swore shes fredy cruger sister  
bross whenb will i famouse  i cant anwser that  nether can i mate  

millie vinalie  theyll make great voiceover actors

ovles song  whish i chould fly but i cant no wonder i ve got some idiots hand up my arse  

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Steve2891 on 06/16/03 at 05:06 p.m.

Baby Jessica.

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Froofy on 06/16/03 at 09:23 p.m.

I think the point Anti Pop Superstar was trying to make was that it was bizarre that Full House didn't last ONLY one season and that it continued past the first season. It's a mystery as to why it lasted as long as it did because it was one of the worst shows.  The only actor on that show who had any talent was Comet the dog. (IMO)  

Quoting:


Full House lasted more than a season.
End Quote

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Bobby on 06/17/03 at 02:58 a.m.


Quoting:
janet st porter   she is fucking scary man  one look at her and i swore shes fredy cruger sister  
bross whenb will i famouse  i cant anwser that  nether can i mate  

millie vinalie  theyll make great voiceover actors

ovles song  whish i chould fly but i cant no wonder i ve got some idiots hand up my arse  
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Ha!Ha! Mr Crowly I've got to hand it to you for saying Janet Street Porter. I've no idea what she did apart from produce two programs - one of them was Saturday morning's 'Get Fresh' with Gaz Top. Do you remember it?

Bros - In hindsight, they looked very effeminate!

Milli Vanilli - The revelation in 1990/1991 was caused because on a live gig, the CD kept stuttering! Worst case scenario! I liked a lot of those songs though. Rob Pilatus commited suicide about 6 years later!

Keith Harris and Orville - There were some things that shouldn't have been recorded. 'I wish I could fly' was one of them! Abysmal! A couple of years back, some idiots made a dance version of it.

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: johnnyray on 06/17/03 at 02:36 p.m.

It was the fall 0f 1982.

Quoting:
I think that was around 1982 or so. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) And you won't find any over-the-counter capsule drugs anymore...at least not that I've seen. The closest you'll find are "caplets," which can't be pulled apart like capsules can.

Absolutely Vile
End Quote

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: dagwood on 06/17/03 at 05:33 p.m.


Quoting:
I think the point Anti Pop Superstar was trying to make was that it was bizarre that Full House didn't last ONLY one season and that it continued past the first season. It's a mystery as to why it lasted as long as it did because it was one of the worst shows.  The only actor on that show who had any talent was Comet the dog. (IMO)  

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Oh, duh on me.  Thanks for clarifying that. :)

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: Absolutely_Vile on 06/17/03 at 11:17 p.m.


Quoting:
It was the fall 0f 1982.

End Quote



Yay! I was right! Thanks. :)

Absolutely Vile

Subject: Re: Weird things that happened in the 80's...

Written By: FloatingEdwina on 06/18/03 at 00:27 a.m.


Quoting:
janet st porter   she is fucking scary man  one look at her and i swore shes fredy cruger sister  
bross whenb will i famouse  i cant anwser that  nether can i mate  

millie vinalie  theyll make great voiceover actors

ovles song  whish i chould fly but i cant no wonder i ve got some idiots hand up my arse  
End Quote



proof that liquor and spelling don't mix ;)
just kidding with you crowly (sic)